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With the official dash to the finish of the 17th General Elections, it appears that more voters are sure to cast their ballots. The ¡°one person, two votes system¡± will also become another factor in the elections, where three out of 10 voters replied that the candidate they support and the political party they support is different.
According to a telephone survey of 1017 adults nationwide conducted by the Chosun Ilbo and Korea Gallup on Saturday, 80.2 percent replied that they will ¡°certainly vote¡± in the upcoming election, which is up from 74.5 percent in a survey on March 30.
When broken down by age, the percentage of people who will vote showed large discrepancies. Of these, 63.4 percent of people in their twenties, 78.3 percent in their thirties, 86.6 percent in their forties and 89.6 percent of people over the age fifty answered that they would be voting.
Of those surveyed, 83 percent said they knew that there will be a ¡°one person, two votes system,¡± which is being introduced for the first time here. Under the ¡°one person, two votes system,¡± 31.3 percent replied that the candidate and party they vote for will be different, which is an increase compared to the 21.3 percent revealed by a Gallup survey taken just 10 days before.
However, 23.7 percent did not reveal the candidate they support and 24.9 percent answered that they may change their minds, indicating that almost half the voters were undecided.
Meanwhile, only 42 percent answered that they knew ¡°almost all¡± the names of candidates running for office in their districts and only 45.8 percent knew the public pledges of the candidate they support.
The survey showed that 54.8 percent of voters were more concerned with the party that the candidate belongs to than the personal ability of the candidate, which only 38.5 percent agreed with.
The survey has a 95 percent confidence interval with a ¡¾3.1 percent margin of error.
(Hong Young-lim, ylhong@chosun.com )
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